I was at the APS March Meeting last week, because I needed tp give a talk reporting on the Schr\u00f6dinger Sessions. But as long as I was going to be there anyway, I figured I should check out the huge range of talks on areas of physics that aren’t my normal thing– in fact, I deliberately avoided going to DAMOP-sponsored sessions.<\/p>\n
This also affected my blogging, so the last few weeks’ worth of posts at Forbes have mostly been on March Meeting-related areas:<\/p>\n
— How Cold Atoms Might Help Physicists Understand Superconductors<\/a>: A post about the connection between ultra-cold atomic physics and condensed matter, prompted by a visit to Illinois and the impending March Meeting.<\/p>\n — Why Physicists Want Their Best Theory To Fail<\/a>: Another few-sigma result from the LHC got a bit of attention, prompting some thoughts on why everyone is so anxious for the Standard Model to break.<\/p>\n — Why Isn’t The Biggest Conference In Physics More Popular?<\/a> Money. Dig down far enough, and the answer is always money.<\/p>\n — Soot And Diamonds: Progress And Perspective In The Practice Of Physics<\/a>: A remark by Jim Kakalios at dinner spins off into some thoughts about the factors that drive the choice of systems to study in physics.<\/p>\n — Physics Will Never Be Over<\/a>: Most of the stuff I went to at March Meeting was quantum, but the last day was all powered by classical physics, proving we’re not done with Newton’s Laws yet.<\/p>\n As always, traffic to the blog passeth all understanding. Of these five, the one I’m happiest with is “Soot And Diamonds,” which is last in terms of readership, by a factor of two. Go figure. But I’m not unhappy with any of these, even though two were written in airports and a third banged out over breakfast. If I were ever to bang together an ebook collection of physics blog posts, these last couple of weeks would be well represented…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was at the APS March Meeting last week, because I needed tp give a talk reporting on the Schr\u00f6dinger Sessions. But as long as I was going to be there anyway, I figured I should check out the huge range of talks on areas of physics that aren’t my normal thing– in fact, I… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Mostly March Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,5,135,6,36,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atoms_and_molecules","category-blogs","category-condensed_matter","category-forbes-recap","category-meetings","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}